Picture of Philadelphia : giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue : with a compendious view of its societies, literary, benevolent, patriotic, and religious : embracing the public buildings, the House of Refuge, prison, new penitentiary, widows' and orphans' asylum, Fair Mount Water Works, &c. : with a variety of interesting miscellaneous matter : and about thirty plates and wood cuts by James Mease, and continued by Thomas Porter

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mease, James, 1771-1846.

Contributor:

Porter, Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Description and travel.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Physical Description:

2 v. in 1 (xii, 358 p., [7] leaves of plates; vi, [2], 129 p., [22] leaves of plates) : ill., plan ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia [Pa.] : Robert Desilver, 1831.

Notes:

Title of v. 2: Picture of Philadelphia, from 1811 to 1831 : giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period : embracing the public buildings ... / by Thomas Porter.

Includes bibliographical references.

Cited in:

Sabin, 47269

Checklist Amer. imprints, 8227

OCLC:

7818302